Hardware Issues / Backing up data

[MattD]

Originally Posted by Fruity Pebbles

On my first dell laptop, the laptop magically fell (long story) and the system would blue screen. They sent me a new hdd, and re-installing wasn't fun. I had to install a program to install the dell drives from the dell cds...hopefully you wont have to do the same thing. It was a great pain.

I already did that when I reinstalled XP on Friday night, and getting all of the drivers installed was a really a pain. Not only that, but then I have to go through installing all of my software again and restoring my data backups. The whole thing took over 5 hours to do... oh well. Maybe I can hire a monkey (possibly my brother) to do it for me this time. At least it isn't as much of a pain as it is to remove all of the bloatware that computer manufacturers insist on including these days.